AI Agent Skills and MCP: Better Together
summary
Shows that MCP alone yields brittle, one-shot tool calls that misroute actions (example: “publish it” goes to Notion when Google Docs was intended) while adding Agent Skills enforces step-by-step SOPs and tool-selection. Uses Claude and MCP runtimes plus a live before-and-after demo with Swiggy Instamart MCP; builds a quick orders skill via Claude Skill Creator that selects address IDs, checks cart state, finds discounted alternatives, enforces a 500 rupee budget and completes checkout via COD — the orchestrated workflow reliably succeeds where standalone MCP fails.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:11What is MCP
- 3:19Agent skills and use
- 9:34MCP pitfalls and issues
- 12:02MCP and skills together
- 14:51Demo: Swiggy MCP and skills
- 19:46Closing
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